According to a statement, the editors of Dinheiro Vivo, the economic publication of the Global Media Group (GMG), decided this Monday at a plenary meeting to “suspend labor contracts” due to the company’s non-payment of salaries.
The decision follows similar decisions taken by the editorial boards of the Jornal de Notícias magazine and the sports company O Jogo, also owned by GMG.
In the note, the editors approved “unanimously the suspension of employment contracts due to complete illegality, which is the non-payment of wages due to employees by law (Christmas bonuses and December salaries).”
In addition, the plenary decided to “use the Dinheiro Vivo website and the weekly notebook.” [DV] as a means of combating” and “continue to wait for the decision of the Social Communications Regulatory Authority (ERC), which is expected to be known tomorrow. [terça-feira]January 23, 2024.”
“We emphasize the urgency of this decision given the group’s current operating conditions, which are increasingly degraded and unsustainable in the short term, completely rejecting being used as hostages in a shareholder war,” they said.
The plenary also demanded that “GMG’s minority shareholders clarify their positions, as well as the negotiation processes in which they are involved and whether they involve the separation of names and brands.”
It is “of utmost importance for the workers to know the future of not only Dinheiro Vivo but also other media”, stressing that they reject “the accelerated disinvestment and the atmosphere of instability that is affecting the DV news department as well as all other groups.”
“With a team of only ten journalists, including a director and two editors, and given the impossibility of employing staff vital to the proper functioning and diversity of the publication, the economic editorial project of the group, the Dinheiro Vivo brand, is in danger. – the reasons, in fact, that led to the dismissal of the director, with which the editors sympathize,” they said.
They also recalled that the publication was “founded in 2011 by a team of 31 journalists.”
“The editors of Dinheiro Vivo are in solidarity with all forms of struggle initiated by comrades from Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Notícias, O Jogo, TSF, Global Imagens, other GMG publications and all shared services,” they emphasized.
Diário de Notícias workers demanded that GMG resolve the wage situation by January 31, deciding to go on strike for an indefinite period “if this does not happen.”
Last week, GMG’s president said in a statement that the World Opportunity Fund (WOF), which controls the group, had signaled its unwillingness to transfer money to pay outstanding wages until the ERC decision was made and the “purported precaution” was withdrawn, Marco Galinha announced.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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